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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Disease \Dis*ease"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Diseased}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Diseasing}.]
1. To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress. [Obs.]
His double burden did him sore disease. --Spenser.
2. To derange the vital functions of; to afflict with disease or sickness; to disorder; -- used almost exclusively in the participle diseased.
He was diseased in body and mind. --Macaulay.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Diseased \Dis*eased"\, adjective Afflicted with disease.
It is my own diseased imagination that torments me. --W. Irving.
Syn: See {Morbid}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
diseased
adjective: caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology; "diseased tonsils"; "a morbid growth"; "pathologic tissue"; "pathological bodily processes" [syn: {morbid}, {pathologic}, {pathological}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
28 Moby Thesaurus words for "diseased": abed, abnormal, afflicted, ailing, bad, cankered, contaminated, gangrened, gangrenous, ill, infected, infirm, morbid, mortified, out of sorts, pathological, peccant, poisoned, septic, sick, sphacelated, tainted, ulcerated, ulcerous, unhealthy, unsound, unwell, unwholesome
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